Jay481985

Meh for now

Probably would have been quicker tonight. Electric heat may not work, has never been a problem down here but we never get a chance of snow with a storm ! Well last year's freak snow storm in October taught me a few things, the gas water and gas heater still needs electricity to work (turning on and off) so what did work was the good old gas stove with some matches. (stupid oven has touch screen buttons that needs electricity.

Same here! Looks like this area is going to be taking the brunt of it. Time to put away the patio furniture, stock up the water and beer, and make sure the batteries are all fresh (including making sure all my 'iDevices' and handheld video games are all charged up). The grocery store tomorrow morning is going to be interesting (wondering if I should've gone tonight). I went today to home depot and the local grocery store. No one had D batteries. Glad I switched last year from alkaline to eneloop AA rechargable batteries. They work in C and D batteries with spacers. They don't have the same charge capacity but with leds they last a remarkably long time (its also a lot cheaper in the long run) I brought a spare sump pump and utility pump, most likely not going to be used since I live on a side of a hill and the water runs around us not on us, but also I learned from Hurricane Irene last year even though I filled my bathtub with water, the water became stale and the water pump station had no electricity for 5 days. I brought this today and hopefully help relieve the problem. http://www.amazon.com/waterBOB-Emergency-Drinking-Water-Storage/dp/B001AXLUX2 I will also have to either throw away, tie down, or move all things that can be tossed. :-/ Grocery store was not bad, the local one was bad as it deals with 4 towns nearby, I went to one that was on a highway and just as I thought, it was fine. They still had water and bread.

I am not sure since the phone was from 2006 but bloatware does use a lot of battery. I unlocked my phone so I can turn off half of the "required" apps that verizon puts on my phone.

I think battery technology improved as of late. As with the battery in the calculator, its a fluke and you cannot compare apples to apples. are you sure the new battery will last only a year or two? With the new smartphones, I believe apple does the lithium polymer batteries to cram as many maH as possible to extend their use time. Had they put less than optimal, well then you are going to get some angry customers. And I think its more in line with the hairdryer situation. Hair dryers last about a year or two with constant use. But a professional hair dryer for a barber or salon lasts much longer but also costs 500 dollars or so. Imagine a cellphone made to those specs, oh yeah here it is http://www.gadgetreview.com/2011/10/vertu-constellation-t.html

Not that amazing. It worked well enough, but the antenna snapped off twice on mine, costing $40 to replace each time. It was such a common repair that the shop kept a supply of them, and could replace the antenna in less time than it took to print the invoice. As for planned obsolescence, I remember seeing a reader's letter to an AV magazine. He grumbled about the flimsy build quality of video cameras. The editor responded that it didn't matter, since most users bought a new videocam every couple of years, so they'd have the latest features. I wasn't too impressed with that. I remember the later model had a antenna that did not come out. As with the repair, yep it was easy to repair. I have a denon 3805 receiver (made in 2005) and is working fine but struggling to try and rewire it in a way that works as it lacks hdmi. Sooner or later anything electronic will become obsolete. I don't understand the mentality of lifetime tools versus electronics. People complain that their cellphones become obsolete so fast compared to say a professional hand tool. The handtool does one thing well, a "smart phone" does more than just make calls now. The thing is that the cell phones are intentionally designed to fail at about 20 months after they are purchased (and no, they are not free, the price is built into the contract). They can last much longer but the battery, which is not designed to be changed, is intentionally designed to fail a few months before the contract ends. Is this just a coincidence? I have a calculator from undergrad that still has the original battery (from the late 1980's). again The handtool does one thing well, a "smart phone" does more than just make calls now. You are comparing a calculator that does one thing well compared to a multipurpose tool like say a swiss army knife. Do I expect my swiss army knife to be able to saw like a real saw, hammer like a 12 ounce framing tool, drill like a 24 volt? No. And the calculator in terms of energy use is much less so than a smart phone. I wager the battery in your calculator has less discharge on it in it's whole life than one recharge cycle on a smart phone. This argument is boiling down to some certain political points a certain party tries to shove down their consitutents when in fact it does nothing to the national budget.

tube fanatic, do you or anyone you know have diabetes type 1 that takes insulin? Because that is a genetically modified organism that produced the insulin. If you make it a zero sum game, then people will die. When you realize how many people are on medications that require gmo's that will otherwise die, you will be astounded. Also gmo's are not as altered as you believe. A good documentary that is rather well rounded and not one sided is this BBC Horizon documentary

Another concern regarding kids is the huge number of forced vaccines they must have in spite of safety concerns being raised. Many states are eliminating conscientious objections for any reason; and schools in California may now administer Gardasil to kids in certain age groups (in spite of some frightening safety concerns) without parental notification or permission! Imagine your healthy child suddenly dying (documented with Gardasil) without your having any idea that they were given this poison. On top of that, vaccine manufacturers are totally shielded from liability (thank you Supreme Court) in the event any kind of adverse reaction occurs from a "required" vaccine. So, there's no incentive for them to turn out a safe product knowing that they can't be sued. Just lovely................................. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/20/california.whooping.cough/index.html

real men use poison ivy

Well time to charge all my batteries, get some water, and stock up on liquor.

Not that amazing. It worked well enough, but the antenna snapped off twice on mine, costing $40 to replace each time. It was such a common repair that the shop kept a supply of them, and could replace the antenna in less time than it took to print the invoice. As for planned obsolescence, I remember seeing a reader's letter to an AV magazine. He grumbled about the flimsy build quality of video cameras. The editor responded that it didn't matter, since most users bought a new videocam every couple of years, so they'd have the latest features. I wasn't too impressed with that. I remember the later model had a antenna that did not come out. As with the repair, yep it was easy to repair. I have a denon 3805 receiver (made in 2005) and is working fine but struggling to try and rewire it in a way that works as it lacks hdmi. Sooner or later anything electronic will become obsolete. I don't understand the mentality of lifetime tools versus electronics. People complain that their cellphones become obsolete so fast compared to say a professional hand tool. The handtool does one thing well, a "smart phone" does more than just make calls now.

Just use any deactivated phone, by law even phones with no activation must still be able to call 911

The star tac was an amazing phone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC

That is what TCSounds the company made, the red version is what Michael Hurd which is on this forum every so often built. I have the mini beast, It has one tcsounds lms 5400 and 3 18 in passive radiators in a 24 inch cubic box.

I agree, but the problem is that many products are designed to fail, even quality ones. I bought an android cell phone because you can replace the batters and easily upgrade memory. Every cell phone that I have ever had has been fine, except that it's battery was bad (and not replaceable). This whole "designed to fail" is all very hard to accept by a "tool guy" who is used to buying quality and having it forever. For those who say that the economy needs thsi to survive, Toyota and Honda have been putting out cars that seem to last forever for a long time and their sales have been going up over the last 30 years, not down. First you mean storage not memory. Second you can buy a "quality" cellphone, its called a vertu. It starts at 12,000 dollars. Second yes cellphones are designed products just like designer clothing. You cannot sell last years fashion and expect it to sell. Cars are different and most of the Toyota's and Honda's are usually handed down when they become over 6 years old. It usually is handed down to the person's kid. Also if their reliability were in question, they would not have been brought. Honda and Toyota peg themselves as the most reliable to sell cars. Had they been unreliable, they would have came to the market and never brought.

same with samsung "discount" lcd tvs, cheap capcitors.

http://www.avsforum.com/t/989681/tc-lms5400-18-build-thread

I would say Michael Hurd has more of a chance with his Beast

Well Kenmore is not really a manufacturing company. It is a rebranding company. I own 5 sears appliances an I figured out which are which. The refridgerator is a rebraned LG. It has the same LED lighting and water/ice. The stove is a rebranded Fridgeaier, same convection oven/grill layout. The Dishwasher is a rebranded whirlpool europe model as it has the same layout and steam vent as the IKEA model which is a rebranded whirlpool europe edition. The washer and dryer are also fridgiaire. YMMV with kenmore.

I understand that some aren't doing as well as prior to the Credit Default Crisis, but otoh, folks seem to forget what was happening 4 years ago...Fwiw, I wasn't for bailing out the big banks until I saw what happened to the Stock Market after talk about possibly not bailing out AIG. If the markets didn't rebound like they have pretty much everyone's retirement funds & investments would be in jeopardy not to mention if our Auto industry was allowed to fail. I admit I am fond of many aspects of Capitalism but there is a role for Government and as a small business owner prior to "the crash" my biggest concern was in regard to our rising Healthcare costs and last year we got a check back from our Insurance company. Had AIG collapsed the way the system was leveraged, the next day you go to an atm and as for a withdrawl, it would print you an I.O.U instead of dispensing money. That's how bad it was. Countries collapse when that happen, anarchy ensues especially with the amount of firearms Americans have. As for role of Government, I guess with the recent tainted anti inflamatory meningitis outbreak, I guess the lack of government oversight due to the ways the regulations are with medications showed us right! I mean the free market corrected itself right?! Right? You make a Great point, it just happens to be the opposite of the one you thought you were making.The GOVERNMENT was in charge, and dropped the ball due to it's stupid regulation arrangement.If a PRIVATE insurance company would have been overseeing it's likely this would not have happened, they hate being sued.Try to sue the state..........we'll see how many people that died prevail. The government deregulated that market during Clinton's era. The government was not in charge. AIG is or was a private insurance company when it happened. As for being sued, hahahaha do you keep up with Apple versus Samsung, Apple versus Google. Today's motto is, "If you are not being sued, you are not doing it right." "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

It better at a cost of $150 million per unit flyaway cost/$412 millionwith r/d factored it and $44,259 per flying hour and "In the early years of its service, the F-22 required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every flight hour, with the total cost per flight hour of $44,000, however in 2008 this figure had been lowered to 18.1 hours, and 10.5 hours by 2009;"

I don't think they compare straight up, the F35 is like the current F16, single engine multi role while the F22 is like the F15 a pure bred race horse for one think, air superiority

Seeing that you are fron the UAE, I would have expected less since your oil is subsidized by the government. Also 95 and 98 is equvalent to 91/95 I think, just different measurement.

just like in accidents happening in industries that are heavily regulated. i've responded to airline crashes, and major oil spills...all where layers and layers of government regulations and oversight existed--things still happened. anyone that expects perfection or anything close to it is bound to be disappointed in any system. Here's the problem there is no oversight at all in that medical "copying" place, I think the USDA has more oversight at a beef factory than that facility that made or packaged the steroids. As for heavily regulated, the airlines are one of the safest if the the safest mode of transportation. With the way airplanes are with ILS and autopilots, the biggest factor is usually human error. I think the last time an actual 100% mechanical problem that caused a hull loss was the heathrow triple7 that had buildup of ice in the engines which was a manufacturing error by Rolls Royce. As for major oil spills, had BP installed the cut off valve the mass amounts of oil would have not have leaked as required in most other first world nations that do off shore oil drilling. It was lax regulation that allowed for millions+ barrels of oil to spill. I am not asking for perfection but when there is no oversight there tends to be big problems.

I understand that some aren't doing as well as prior to the Credit Default Crisis, but otoh, folks seem to forget what was happening 4 years ago...Fwiw, I wasn't for bailing out the big banks until I saw what happened to the Stock Market after talk about possibly not bailing out AIG. If the markets didn't rebound like they have pretty much everyone's retirement funds & investments would be in jeopardy not to mention if our Auto industry was allowed to fail. I admit I am fond of many aspects of Capitalism but there is a role for Government and as a small business owner prior to "the crash" my biggest concern was in regard to our rising Healthcare costs and last year we got a check back from our Insurance company. Had AIG collapsed the way the system was leveraged, the next day you go to an atm and as for a withdrawl, it would print you an I.O.U instead of dispensing money. That's how bad it was. Countries collapse when that happen, anarchy ensues especially with the amount of firearms Americans have. As for role of Government, I guess with the recent tainted anti inflamatory meningitis outbreak, I guess the lack of government oversight due to the ways the regulations are with medications showed us right! I mean the free market corrected itself right?! Right?